About Us

We provide extraordinary resources to families and students interested in pursuing equestrian careers and sports.﻿

We provide the information, advice and suggestions. You ask the questions, make the decision and then ultimately apply the effort that that best fits your life. Our support helps you at each stage - from start to finish.

Dr. Bump is a frequent educational presenter at events such as the Equine Affaire in MA, The College Preparatory Invitational Horse Show (CPI) in FL, and local, regional and national conferences, seminars, and industry events such as the Equine Science Society meetings, Mid-West American Association of Animal Sciences meeting, Board of Directors meeting for the National Reining Horse Association, and the prestigious Saratoga Institute on Racing and Gaming Law.﻿

Dr. Karin Bump has been teaching for 28 years and as a full professor, teaches a full-time complement of equine management and traditional business courses. Her broad teaching and mentoring perspective of the equine industry includes one of her first-year level courses entitled “Horses, Humans, Politics and Pressure” as well as the program’s comprehensive full-year Senior Capstone experience. As part of her research interests, Dr. Bump has traveled the country interviewing faculty and administrators on the views of legitimacy of academic programs while using the equine discipline as a case study.

Her work in this area led to the development of the National Association of Equine Affiliated Academics (NAEAA)--an organization which builds on the benefits of inter-institutional collaboration by raising the awareness of the equine discipline and promoting and advancing its growth and improvement.

Dr. Bump has held and currently holds leadership roles in a variety of industry and professional organizations such as the National Association of Equine Affiliated Academics (Co-Founder and Director), the Equine Science Society (Board of Directors), New York Farm Bureau (Equine Committee Chair), and the NYS Equine Industry Coalition. She is certified as a Professional Animal Scientist through the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists.

Appointed by two different NY Governors, Karin served on the NYS Governor’s Task Force on Retired Race Horses as well as the Strategic Interagency Alliance on Lessoning Obstacles to Agriculture. She currently serves on the Pride of New York agricultural commodity advisory board to the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets.

As one of her many passions, she frequently has involvement with the pressing topic of equine welfare related to unwanted and ‘at-risk’ horses in the United States. ﻿﻿

Tim Williams-Founder of The Right Program For U-has more than 35 years of college admission/marketing experience. Along that journey he was a successful college coach at several institutions and recently served as a full-time faculty member and Interim Director of a College Sport Management Program.

Tim has direct personal experience with all aspects of the college enrollment process including admission, financial aid, college fit and affordability, and academic advising. He has helped counsel thousands of students to find graduation success at a wide range of colleges and universities with a diverse set of characteristics that includes both private and public, all types of degrees, liberal arts and technical hands-on institutions and includes variety of campus settings in locations in many different geographic locations.

While this comprehensive, collegiate expertise is broad-based and applicable to all programs and majors, his work over the last 20 years has focused on the equine and equestrian world. This pragmatic and practical experience is invaluable for families and students interested in reviewing, choosing and enrolling in a post-secondary academic equine program and/or an equestrian team and his combination of roles provides a unique expertise and experience in these areas.

His equestrian experience includes positions with several colleges with large equine student populations and industry work through John Madden Sales, the Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament, the World Of Horses Exhibit at the NYS Fair and several equine-related non-profit organizations. A recent partnership and collaboration with the EQUUS Foundation has provided the one-of-a-kind Equine Education Network resource of which Tim is the program administrator. Immediate and on-going access to this network is now available through the free Smartphone app, Equine Academics.

His experience is both professional and educational and includes an MBA in Marketing and a BS in Political Science and General Science. Tim is Co-Founder and Board Member of the National Association of Equine Affiliated Academics (www.NAEAA.com), Co-Show Manager and Board Member for the Lorenzo Driving Competition ( http://lorenzodriving.com/﻿ ) and President of CJC Adventures, LLC( http://cjcadventures.com/) .